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The A Word

By David Sirota

MEXICO CITY—Any serious scribe will tell you that writing is, at its heart, the maddening struggle to find exactly the right words. Should the overcast sky be called “gray” or “beige”? Is Rush Limbaugh best described as “an enraged Jabba the Hut,” or “a deranged Stay Puft Marshmallow Man”? Are we living through a “recession” or a “depression”? Recently, I’ve been… return to article

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